Malawi Orphan and Community Project
"Quest4Change works with Joshua Orphan and Community Care to help HIV/AIDS Orphans, vulnerable children and their families in rural Malawi. We support children through school and work on grassroots development initiatives"
Working with Joshua Orphan and Community Care Quest4Change helps provide a safe and secure living environment for orphans, vulnerable children and their families in the Pensulo district of Malawi.
What's the problem?
Each community we work in suffers from the debilitating effects of significant poverty coupled with rising HIV/AIDS rates, poor road networks, lack of clean, piped water and electricity, and very few health and education facilities.
How Quest4Change helps
By providing volunteer support to self-help community groups, predominantly constructing schools, small businesses and medical centres. Volunteer donations are used on sustainable development projects through the construction of feeding stations and school buildings, developing tree-planting initiatives, school scholarship funds and related projects to improve the livelihoods of the rural communities. The biggest projects we have done together to date has been the Pensulo Maternity, HIV and Health Centre (below), now a much-used and vital health resource.
Project Partner
Quest4Change works with Joshua Orphan & Community Care on this project, supporting the United Nations Millennium Development Goal 2 - Achieving universal Primary Education by 2015 and Goal 4 - Reducing child mortality. Joshua was established in Malawi in 1998 in the community of Pensulo. Since then, it has expanded to serve over 20 communities, with 9 orphan feeding centres. Joshua also provides nearly 1200 children with one nutritious meal a day.
Latest News:
The 2011 Quest summer team of volunteers constructed a feeding centre from start to finish, including decoration (above). This was in the village of Kumwandika, a new community that Joshua is working with, hich was extremely welcoming to the volunteers.
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In Uk news, Kevin Love ran the 2011 Brighton Marathon for Joshua Orphan & Community Care in an amazing time of 3 hours and two minutes, an amazing time and an amazing fundraisng total of over £800, which will support two children through 5 years worth of secondary education - Well done!
Over the next two years the main aims will be to construct a two-room classroom in Kachumbe and complete a feeding station in Sigerege. Each Quest volunteer's donation will continue to fund a child through 5 years of secondary education. A key focus of this project is also to help our project partners to develop community awareness on environmental education, deforestation and HIV/AIDs.
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How you can help
- Be a Secret Millionaire for this project, don't worry, you don't have to be an actual millionaire to help out!
Sponsor a child for secondary school - just £75 will send a child to secondary school in Malawi for a year.
Education in Malawi is discontinued after primary level and families can not afford secondary school. Your gift will support an AIDS orphan in rural Malawi and pay for any school fees, books and uniform. 115 million children of primary age do not attend school- that is a tragedy for each individual child- you can help, one child at a time. Your gift will not only benefit the child bu the whole community.
You will receive a personalised gift card thanking you for your support and regular e-mails throughout the year letting you know what is being achieved with your help. If it's a gift for someone then this can be personalised and sent directly to the recipient. Contact Rose to find out more.
